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Panama investigation: The trouble within NAB

ISLAMABAD: After feeling the heat at the accountability court, the country’s top anti-corruption watchdog came across a serious trouble over the appointment of new ‘in charge supervisory team’ to oversee conclusive proceeding directly linked to the Panama Papers case.

A serious controversy started at the NAB Headquarters last week when Prosecutor General Syed Asghar Haider, who assigned NAB Lahore Directorate to monitor the Panama Papers related affairs, informed officials revealed to this correspondent on Sunday.

Sudden change in the Panama supervision team–from the Rawalpindi NAB Directorate to Lahore NAB Directorate–seriously irked National Accountability Bureau Chairman Justice (R) Javed Iqbal, who was completely being kept in the dark on this key development. The prosecutor general, on March 24, appointed Deputy Prosecutor General Accountability Lahore